This week I was planning a Flora story inspired by the pressed-flower specimen in Jock Lauterer’s Great Aunt Myra Baldwin’s 1943 diary described in a recent “A Thousand Words.”
Although she has been retired from teaching in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools for 20 years, Catharyne Jones Butler continues to give back to the community in new ways.
Legendary English gardener and writer Vita Sackville-West described spiderwort as “… a plant I like very much, sometimes called the Trinity Flower, owing to its three petals of a rich violet, curiously lurking amongst the grassy leaves.”
Well now, I had a wonderful, easy-to-grow, native wildflower groundcover all lined up for this week’s Flora when an awful, innocent-looking plant alien pushed it aside.
It was the first weekend in April last year that I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when chancing upon carpets of the tiny little red-eyed, purple-petaled bluets carpeting the sacred ground of the Sparrow Cemetery out on Mt. Carmel Church Road.
First-grader Gracie Kolat belts out a tune with the Seuss Singers as she helps celebrate a successful Read-a-thon at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School last Friday, the birthday of Seuss creator Theodor Geisel and Read Across America Day.
Rogers Road – A Series The Citizen examined issues related to the fight of the Rogers and Eubanks roads community to be relieved of what they allege to be the undue burden of 35 years.
Breakdown – NC's mental health system unravels
As North Carolina's mental health system unraveled, Citizen Contributing Editor Taylor Sisk tracked the changes and the impact of a loss of services on individuals in the system.
OASIS – Charting a path to recovery
A three-part series on the onset of psychosis in young adults, its treatment and UNC’s Outreach and Support Intervention Services program.
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